6.5 build

Going to put together my first long range gun and I love 6.5's. I'm thinking a wildcat 270wsm necked to 6.5 or possibly a 7mm ultra mag. necked to 6.5. I know they are both overbore but are they just just stupid ridiculous?

What are your goals? to have a lazerbeam cartridge? The 6.5 RUM wildcat is severely overbore and will burn even a quality barrel up very quickly? 6.5/284 is pretty popular now. But also a barrel burner. I feel that the best, most economic 6.5 is the 260 remington. Its a great 1000 yard cartridge and very mild recoil. However its your build, this was just my opinion. Good luck and good shooting!

From reading through almost every 6.5 thread, if you want a laser beam, look into the 6.5 STW. Search the forum. Some good info on it.

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We have some 6.5 Shermans shooting really well and you get magnum velocity on an '06 bolt face. You can get 3200' with 140's and 3050' with 160's in a 26" barrel. Barrel and case life are good and brass is plentiful. We also have a new (to be chambered in about 2-3 weeks) 6.5 SS (Sherman shortmag) that we expect to duplicate the Sherman velocity but will be a TRUE short action round. You can seat the long vld's to the lands and the round will fit in a std. 2.8" remington box.
Picture a .720 b.c bullet at 3050' in a 6.5 and you will be hard pressed to find much that will duplicate it........Rich

We have some 6.5 Shermans shooting really well and you get magnum velocity on an '06 bolt face. You can get 3200' with 140's and 3050' with 160's in a 26" barrel. Barrel and case life are good and brass is plentiful. We also have a new (to be chambered in about 2-3 weeks) 6.5 SS (Sherman shortmag) that we expect to duplicate the Sherman velocity but will be a TRUE short action round. You can seat the long vld's to the lands and the round will fit in a std. 2.8" remington box.
Picture a .720 b.c bullet at 3050' in a 6.5 and you will be hard pressed to find much that will duplicate it........Rich

Those are nice ballistics out of a 6.5 but there are some things that lazer like trajectories cant make up for. BC trumps velocity at long range. Dont get me wrong, I love the 6.5, but at distance(1000+) 338 projectiles win out.